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Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals
Paula Arai
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Description for Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals
Hardcover. This book maps new territory in Zen by explicating a domestic Zen filled with the ritual healing practices of contemporary Japanese female elders. It develops a 10-part theory on Japanese Zen Buddhist womens Way of Healing. It also analyzes how ritualized activities function in Soto Zen mode. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HREZ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Paula Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts - to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing.
In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Paula Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts - to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Univeristy of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824835354
SKU
V9780824835354
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Ref
99-1
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